I’m not even talking about the random swarthy “assets” roused from their hotel rooms, none of whom was a match for any of the agents from the previous movies. And I’m not just talking about Strathairn as a cardboard bad guy and Finney’s feeble and unmoving last act appearance. We just need to sit back and enjoy the action.īut what was even worse was the lack of character. We’re on a need to know basis, and we don’t need to know.
#BONE ULTIMATUM THE GAY PORN MOVIE#
But in Ultimatum, the movie just assumes we’ll take it on faith that he’s just that keen. Die Hard this ain’t, right? For instance, as a very minor point, I can’t help but think in the first two movies, we would have been told how Bourne knew the janitor in the train station wasn’t an agent. But Ultimatum had far too many narrative shortcuts that, I felt, undermined how smart it should have been. They certainly didn’t occur to me as I was watching. There might have been moments of implausibility and coincidence in the first two movies, but I don’t remember them. The Desh fight and the rest of Morocco, the Manhattan car chase, and the fake-out with Strathairn’s office were all really well done.īut, good lord, what a disappointing script. Matt Damon was great (I mean that in a non-gay way), and I really dig Greengrass’ direction, even (especially?) during the big set pieces. Not to say that I didn’t have a great time. Okay, I hate to be the wet blanket here, especially since you guys obviously dug it so much, but I was really disappointed. It’s a great end to the trilogy, but given the $70 million they made over the weekend, I imagine they’'l keep making more as long as Matt Damon is willing. I also laughed every time someone said, “you really don’t remember, do you?” There were all sorts of great echoes from the previous films, like the line he stole from Clive Owen, not shooting the “asset” after the car crash, the scene of Nicky changing her hair and the shot of Jason in the East River. The way they nested the new film into the ending of the last film was brilliant. I especially liked the 911 call in Spain and the way he got the CIA guys in a shoot out with the NYPD. There were so many times in this movie I felt like high fiving the screen. He didn’t even kill the Russian (although one imagines he dies from his injuries in the car crash).
When he fights an equal he doesn’t hold back.
The only times he’s killed have been when fighting other Treadstone/Black Brier agents. In most fights he aims to disarm and disable so he can escape. Can’t blame 9/11 this time.Īctually, one of the things I like best is that Jason has only killed 2 people in the last two movies. In the documents Landy goes through the date of Webb’s entry into the program was in 1999. Good for us.Īctually, the movie does say. Borne is an American everyman in a Post-Iraq-Goat-Rope-Brought-To-Us-By-Our-Post-9/11-Paranoia World.
The movie doesn’t actually say, but one imagines it was 9-11 that drove him to such desperate measures to “save American lives.” Now he’s sorry and wants to make up for it, indicting (but not killing!) all of his right wing loonies. Bourne is an incredibly likeable guy, who let his right-wing reactionary outlook get the better of him. This is a movie about redemption, and not just Jason Bourne’s. I thought the obvious political overtones overcame any potential plot short-comings. She even tried to tempt him with the ol’ cut-my-hair-dye-it-black come on that had worked for Marie. In the second she believed him and thought he should be left alone, and then when he spared her life… I think she had a crush on him. When was Nicky calling for Bourne’s death? She just followed orders in the first movie.